Deborah Kammerer

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping a 29-year-old mother and dragging her into Tampa Bay’s surf to drown more than three decades ago was executed by lethal injection Wednesday at Florida State Prison.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer who has lived on Florida’s death row for more than three decades is scheduled to die by lethal injection this week for killing a St. Petersburg mother — but like many executions, why he is being killed now and why it didn’t happen years ago are both something of a mystery.